Path of the Desperate

The Russian Air Force transport aircraft “Ruslan” was delivering humanitarian aid to Ethiopia. But it never reached Addis Ababa: over Sudan, two MiG-21 fighters without identification markings forced it down and made it land. The planes belonged to a group of Arab extremists led by… a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Mentally unstable, he dreams of repeating the American tragedy of 2001. The captives and the aircraft were hidden at a deserted mountain airfield, where they supposedly couldn’t be found. But there is no word “impossible” for a group of Russian paratroopers—including contract sergeant Vladimir Lokis. The men are tasked with finding and freeing the captured Russian crew…